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Perhaps "senior leadership" was the wrong term. All I meant to illustrate is that this team isn't young, although, as noted, they aren't experienced at the varsity level. PM me about the "scene on the bus."

True...which leads to another gripe of mine with Coach L's- an unwillingness to cut people beyond their sophomore year. In the last 4 years, here are how many seniors have been around: Class of 2006: 6 Class of 2007: 4 (but a player quit and a player transferred after junior season) Class of 2008: 5 Class of 2009: 6 Class of 2010: 7 Class of 2011 (current juniors): 8 So, we have all these kids who have put a ton of time to the program, but haven't done much on the varsity level. It takes time to adjust to the Varsity level, and CovCath has benefited when players start early at Varsity- top players in recent years such as Nestheide, B. Votel, Tierney, Jacobs, Bovard, Maile were 2-year starters (and all played Varsity their sophomore years). Ironically, the senior-heavy rosters, I think, is a result of the success of the 2004 team with 6 seniors, but that class was unique in talent and depth. But that team was also experienced, and in order to do that, you have to cut some fairly talented kids, so the best ones can excel. It sucks, but it is for the best of the program.

Absolutely. This team is deep, talented, and has plenty of senior leadership. A high ceiling, but plenty of work to do.

I can't blame Trevor for not wanting to come out- if you come out, you never know when you are going back in. After following CCH for 7 years, I still can't figure out Coach L's substitution patterns. Austin Hudepohl did not play the entire 2nd Half. Why? Who knows. Clearly, CovCath was having trouble breaking the press, but Coach L didn't give any one (specifically, any non-senior) the chance to break it. As noted, this team has major, major issues breaking the press. Furthermore, Thelen was killing them down low, and his touches decreased significantly in the 2nd half. The Colonels have only 2 plays designated for big guys- the same 2 plays they had in 2005-2007- and they are extremely predictable. After Thelen killed them in the 1st quarter, they merely upped the pressure on the guards (specifically on the wing) and the Colonels could hardly get a shot off. And before someone tells me, "How could Thelen not have had enough touches, he scored 20+?"- he probably only had 8 or 9 posts in the low post, and at least 6 of those came in the first quarter. I love Coach L- but last night, it was clear that CCH was outcoached. St. X made adjustments, didn't turn the ball over as much (although I don't have the stats), set the tempo, and made their free throws. CovCath didn't do any of those things.

JV won by around 8. Great game out of Riedinger.

St. X comes back after ending the 1st quarter down 20-5. Is St. X any good this year?

Jodie's school, right?

I meant that I'll reserve judgment on the "big man offense"

I'll reserve judgment until I see a few games...but as noted earlier:

In re: to Trevor Wellbrock... I haven't seen CovCath play this season, but from watching/playing with Trevor over the past few years, his biggest problem is that he settles for jumpshots too much. I assume that he is primarily concentrating on scoring down low, and dominating as an (expected)result. For those who have seen the Colonels- is this assumption correct?

I guess it's not the difficulty, its the laziness that Blue Magic touched upon. Simple things like struggling to find Copy and Paste (as well as the whole right-click thing) aren't worth it to someone like me who uses the computer so little.

I guess part of my "problem" with Macs is just that. I'm only on the computer for a small number of tasks- email, internet, and note-taking in class...I don't want to have to learn a whole new system.

I've never owned & operated a Toshiba so I can't say for sure. Just having a little fun with Blue Magic.

You have to figure Coach L is hating it this year...is getting scoring from the big guys really "Listerman basketball".

Or you can buy 3 Toshiba's and see what lasts longer.